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Mutiny and Murder. Confession of Charles Gibbs, a Native of Rhode Island; Who, with Thomas J. Wansley, was Doomed to be Hung in New-York on the 22d of April last, for the Murder of the Captain and Mate of the Brig Vineyard, on Her Passage from New-Orleans to Philadelphia, in November 1830. Gibbs confesses that within a few years he has participated in the murder of nearly 400 human beings.